Ion Battery Bad?

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

Has anyone had a battery go bad on these yet?

I have the first year auger, so it is coming into it's third season. I charged the battery up this spring, and it was fine. I went to charge it two days ago, and the orange light continues to blink, indicating it hasn't fully charged (would turn green). I'm not sure if I should get a new battery, or if this one just needs to get some use in order to get back to a full charge...

[Hawg]

Mine was still green from the spring charge. I'll be watching too as I'm a first year guy also.

[pushbutton]

Yep, will be an interesting year. No problems yet with mine either. Well, my extension is stuck on though...lol.

[B-man715]

I noticed mine did the same thing. I have yet to hit the ice with it, but the indicator on the battery shows that it is fully charged. I'm not too worried about it.

It's a first generation as well.

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

the indicator on the battery shows that it is fully charged.

As does mine. We'll see what happens after the weekend. I'm sure it'll be fine, I just don't want to drive 6 hours to Red and have an auger that may as well be a boat anchor.

[Hawg]

You coming up?

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

I'll be out of JRs. Leaving the cities at 8am tomorrow, so I'm guessing I'll be on the ice just before dark. Stop on by if you see the house!

[B-man715]

I just played with it some more and noticed that the charger blinks red even without a battery. If any thing the charger is goofed up???

I'll be out of JRs. Leaving the cities at 8am tomorrow, so I'm guessing I'll be on the ice just before dark. Stop on by if you see the house!

We are headed there too, should be getting up late sometime on Friday. If you wanna meet up for a beer on Saturday sometime give me a holler I'd love to check out your latest shack if you are close by. If not I hope the fishing is stellar for ya!

Good luck this weekend guys

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

I noticed mine did the same thing. I have yet to hit the ice with it, but the indicator on the battery shows that it is fully charged. I'm not too worried about it.

It's a first generation as well.

Quick update. I talked with Ardisam/Eskimo/ION today. Turns out my charger is bad. They are sending out a new one free of charge.

I was asking about the battery life, and they are thinking they'll go somewhere between 800-1000 charge cycles. So we should all be good for quite some time

[B-man715]

I called them too yesterday. Same thing, free warranty one should show up tomorrow.

I asked if it was a common problem....... and got the standard answer of "oh..uhh...no...it is really rare....."

I'm betting not....

Hopefully the new one is improved and of higher quality, or in 5 years we will all have junk obsolete augers....

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

I asked if it was a common problem....... and got the standard answer of "oh..uhh...no...it is really rare....."

Ha...We must have talked to the same guy.

There's an incredible amount of IONs out there now. I haven't found anything online that would indicate any sort of consistent problem, but that doesn't mean it can't/won't happen.

[B-man715]

New charger showed up today, works like a champ